Brodie

News to me lol

Far from old! Fit as a buck rat as they say, so wont be getting rid if me that easy! Just coming into my prime!

It was a false market Mikie. From The TAB they took 2 bets of $100 and 1 of $500. The horse had shown very little and should never have shortened into $4. Reality is that unfortunately the TAB are so restrictive and conservative it is affecting the bottom line.

Yes I know, been discussed before! Mile racing from the mobile is bad enough, but why on earth do they plan mile races from a STAND??? Absolutely crazy, your horse misses away slightly and it is game over, when they are going so fast over the shortest distance!!!!! There will be some that wager on such events, but as a betting option , forget it, absolute lottery,

Carter going just as well. I have never put Sarah O’Reilly’s driving down, but I will still maintain that Carter Dalgety is the best Junior since Dexter if not better at the same stage. Look at his last 2 drives today. Beaten by the bad draw of of 9 and then a $15 winner! I will guarantee that Carter will be far more successful whether it be NZ or overseas. You can just tell by the way he drives, cool as ice and nothing phases him for one of his experience. Are you up for a wager Gamma, on whose UDR is better at the end of the year? Lol

Lol according to Craig Thompson from the TAB lol $100 at 14 another hundred at $10 i think and $500 @$6 ffs.Absolutely criminal shortening on that pitiful amount. Bookies are very poor! That horse went shocking!

Was told it went well in a trial at Addington in early November! Started in a qualifier and was 3 back and got bowled. Started many races later against qualified non winners to try and aualify which it did running fourth! Thought it went only fair, so it mustve grown another leg in training to warrant such support you would think?

Someone knows something alright but you couldnt have it on its run in November! Seems it might have gate speed but leave me off that one, but where there is smoke there is fire! Harnesslink tipster tipped it out, so you wouldnt know how much went on? Do like one in that race that I thought was overs!

The whip rule is so WRONG and needs changing! Tim Williams did not deserve a 3 day suspension, there are far worse drives that never get mentioned!! Racing Integrity?

Race 4 at Nelson Forte Lustre having its first start for Ivan Court has been hammered by the Bookies, Anyone know why it has been so heavily backed in? Seems puzzling to be reduced so much on what it has shown in public!

Not too sure why some people often pick on Tim Williams. To my mind Tim Williams has been one of most improved harness drivers that NZ has had! When he started out he had plenty of ability, probably too much, as he probably wanted to be as good as his mate, Dexter! When he was down south he used to be very aggressive but once he came back up to Chch and worked at the AllStars stables he improved dramatically. You only have to look at his UDR to see just how good he really is! I rank him very highly, and yes he doesnt always drive as consistently as say Blair Orange does! He is one of the very best we have and a credit to the industry and his family!

Harness racing registered foals in NZ has been declining in numbers drastically over the past decades. There was only 1367 foals registered in the 2022 year a decline of 59% in the last 2 decades which is alarming! HRNZ have acknowledged this now and are going to give a subsidy Of $1k off the service fee to all breeders for the 2023 season on a 42 day positive test. This $1k is paid to the stud and is a credit off the invoice for the service! Totally agree that things have to be done to stop the decline in breeding numbers or without people breeding their mares, the industry is doomed! Breeding horses to make money from selling and racing is a difficult business nowadays, that is the reason that people have got the stitch and arent bothering with the horse breeding like they did last century!! it is going to be interesting to see if this $1k subsidy makes any difference in promoting breeding their mares this season? Hopefully it helps a bit but probably will not make one iota of difference as $1k is not a lot when you consider the stallion’s service fees and the many other associated costs, is it much of an incentive do you think? Not sure what Bettors Delight service fee is but probably around $30k? There is also a $3k subsidy for breeders that breed from a mare that was not bred from in 2022 if it is an additional mare owned by the same owner! This is estimated to cost around $1 million to HRNZ so hopefully it works to improve numbers being bred! What do you reckon, will it make any difference????

I say the more Junior Drivers we have available the better for the good of the industry. There has to be something for the young ones who are working in stables, as there are far easier ways of making a living. I certainly would not want to be getting up when it is dark and driving to the stables anytime of the year and work as hard as young ones do. Andrew Fitzgerald is a total harness enthusiast and is an asset to harness and promotes the industry more that what HRNZ does, so not great to knock him as he is a top bloke and we need him to keep up his great work.

Basil, calling Brodie an Ass, is very upsetting for me. I have not got a hard skin and I will now need counselling. Are you not aware things like that to people could have consequences? Basil, from your comments You would be one of the Dickheads that think by reducing speed limits is going to reduce the road toll!

That’s my point, serious punters would desert harness racing if whips were banned!

Personally would be far more concerned with the increase of deaths in humans over the past couple of years that is being hushed up! When did we ever have ads on TV about heart attacks, and shingles etc? Never until after the Pfizer jabs were given to most of the population and for what? Locked the country down gave away billions and now we are paying for it! Why are they now not worried about all the positive tests and deaths when it was so worrying to them before? Why? Because it is the biggest scam in human history and the ones getting crook or dieing are the ones that believed that they were being vaccinated by an approved substance!

Have “The Race” if you want to but all the media BS on Trackside etc. is just blatant annoying! The corporates and wealthy owners put the money up to pay for the stake and all we get is this The Race by Groms for flipping months! So much more than the NZ Cup and force a race that lasts for less than 2 minutes. Promote harness racing to the public not this novelty race for the elite as it does nothing for the benefit of harness racings future unfortunately!

Lol, Colin De Fillippi is one of them that they are continuing to hammer for not using the whip according to their stupid rule! Do not agree that they should ban the whip whatsoever. Ozzie Chief harness administrator brought in banning the whip and that did not get off the ground! The Ozzies did not accept that BS!! The ozzies use the whip more than what the Kiwis do. I definitely believe that if drivers were not allowed to carry a whip or persuader harness racing would be a thing of the past! Serious punters would not bother offloading their dollars at all!!! Seriously would decimate the industry! There are far more bigger issues in harness than the whip and it would take next to nothing to change the rule back to what it was and what worked!

Interesting! Not sure there is a lot of integrity currently coming out of the RIU, although they are probably following a very bad rule in regards the whip rule! The thing is you would hope that the Stipes would have enough common sense and go to HRNZ and have a full discussion in regards the lunacy of the current rule? Obviously they havent, they appear to not want to rock the boat and keep claiming their salary for doing a very job! Unfortunately Brodie has seen too many poor decisions that affect our horse people to have any confidence in this lot!

What are that actually saying Chief? They did allow Brodie to post for quite awhile, not too sure why I was banned, think It was telling the truth and always being on the money, some dont like that? Not sure what Happy Sunrise is saying, he seemed a decent person when he was on this premier site for years?

HRNZ need to own up and admit that the current harness whip rule is just so wrong!! The Dickheads that brought it in need to totally reassess it and go back to what it was and actually worked before Rennell brought the last 2 amendments in! The decisions being brought into harness racing is crazy and doing far more harm than good! You only have to look at the Stipes Report from Mot yesterday to see that it just does not work and needs to go. The Stipes are unnecessarily affecting the livelihoods of very hard working drivers. It is long overdue that the association stand up to HRNZ and tell them that enough is enough and we want the whip rule changed back to what is was, or are they too weak to do this???

Yes the rules for harness Junior Driver qualifications has just been changed. There are several drivers who have rejoined the Junior ranks including Andrew Fitzgerald, Jack Harrington, Andrew Drake and Fergus Schumacher. It is to encourage young ones to stay in the game

“The Race” over hyped and not to the benefit of harness racing only to the ones that dont need the money. Weird the way they promote this “The Race” for months and yet the rest of the year they do very little promotion of harness racing to attract newbies???

Think The Allstars originally trained Sicario when in Canterbury. Whisky Cavalier was pretty tough when he raced here. The thing is most reasonable horses here can go over to Oz and win races, our horses are just so much better than theirs on average. NZ has lifted the standard of their racing due to our exports. Far easier to at least break even racing horses in Oz as far more opportunities.

Who is Nancy Delaney? Nathan?.